[Rockhounds] Stunning discovery of 9000-year-old rock art shows humans knew about dinosaurs

[Kreigh Tomaszewski]

In 1987, some gemstone prospectors unearthed lapidaries of fascinating
turquoise tourmaline crystals in the hilly mines of Paraiba, an
agricultural state on the eastern tip of Brazil. And now, the city has
taken researchers further back in time, by revealing an intriguing
collection of dinosaur footprints juxtaposed with rock art dating more than
9000 years ago. The collection has been discovered in Serrote do Letreiro
in the Sousa Basin of the state, and the corresponding research is
published in Scientific Reports
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 journal.
Transporting the time machine to the Jurassic era, the study has revealed
that prehistoric hunter-gatherers in Brazil created tons of enigmatic rock
art designs, called petroglyphs, next to the fossilized footprints of
dinosaurs. The findings promise to provide some marvelous insights into the
marriage of paleontology and archaeology offered by the uncloaking of this
stunning assemblage on the outcrops of Serrote.
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